How to Use bearded seal in a Sentence
bearded seal
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Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
— Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019 -
And seal hunters this spring found bearded seals to harvest but not near the village.
— Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019 -
On May 10, eight young bearded seals were found on St. Lawrence Island.
— Fox News, 13 June 2019 -
In early June, a group of hunters from her family traveled more than 50 miles by boat to find bearded seals on the ice.
— Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2019 -
Derek would help push boats across the ice as his father searched for patches of open water to hunt walrus and bearded seal.
— Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019 -
Eight young bearded seals were found Monday on St. Lawrence Island.
— USA TODAY, 14 June 2019 -
This year, family hunters traveled more than 50 miles by boat to find bearded seals in early June.
— USA TODAY, 1 July 2019 -
Algae that clings to the bottom of sea ice blooms in spring, dies and sinks, sending an infusion of food to clams, snails and sea worms on the ocean floor — the prey of gray whales, walruses and bearded seals.
— Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019 -
Animals that rely on snow and sea ice, such as the ugruk—or bearded seal—are harder to find as sea ice melts, leaving subsistence hunters concerned for their livelihoods.
— Joey Lautrup, Time, 26 Apr. 2022 -
In this vast, wild part of America, there may not be plumbing or potable water, the local store may not carry perishables and people may have to rely on caribou or salmon or bearded seal meat to stay fed.
— Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Sep. 2017 -
Formal policy recommendations shared the pages with tips on preserving reindeer meat in buckets of salt and snow and the difference in cooking times for walrus (long) and bearded seal (short).
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020 -
The Beringia population of bearded seals is predicted to go extinct around 2095 as sea ice disappears and the creatures are forced into degraded habitat, according to the EIS.
— Adam Aton, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019 -
Polar bears might be the least vulnerable, with four other important species—bearded seals, walruses, bowhead whales and ringed seals—probably falling somewhere in the middle.
— Adam Aton, Scientific American, 3 July 2018 -
In this vast, wild part of America, accessible only by water or air, there may not be plumbing or potable water, the local store may not carry perishables and people may have to rely on caribou or salmon or bearded seal meat to stay fed.
— Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017 -
In Svalbard, Norway, male bearded seals descend underwater in spirals, singing and releasing bubbles.
— Trevor Cox, National Geographic, 31 July 2019
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